Vintage Video - Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, 1914

Nicholas' war was not a happy one however; repeated early military setbacks led to him taking personal command of his armies in 1915, a move strenuously
opposed by much of the Cabinet. They correctly feared that further defeats on the battlefield would subsequently be directly attributed to the Tsar himself: such was the case.

With the Russian Revolution of February 1917 the Tsar was persuaded to abdicate; he (and his family) were subsequently murdered by Bolshevists following the October Revolution.

Use the player above to view film footage of the Tsar and Tsarina taken before the First World War began in 1914.